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Japanese exchange students Yoshiakt Tsutsumi and Kazunori Takagi relax in the Selleck cafeteria. The students
will be spending their first Christmas in America.
Exchange students to learn traditions
By Martin Neary
The distance from Lincoln to Nogoya, Japan is about
4,000 miles. Two Japanese foreign exchange students
said there are almost Ss many differencesm Christmas:
traditions as miles between the two cities.
Kazunori Takagi and Yosfiiaka Tsutsumi came to'
UNL from Nanzan University in Nagoya as part of an
exchange program which also sent three Nebraska stu
dents to Japan. Kazu and Yoshi, as their friends call
them, flew to the United States in August.
Takagi and Tsutsumi both live in Selleck Hall and are
preparing to celebrate their first Christmas in America.
Christmas is not celebrated as a national holiday in Japan
but it is a commercial thing for businesses, Tsutsumi
said. Most households do have a special Christmas dinner
which includes cake, Takagi said. Santa Claus also can
be found at many Japanese shopping centers.'
This year, Takagi and Tstusumi will be staying with
their host family to learn how Americans celebrate the
holidays. .
Phyllis Todd, a Japanese citizen of Lincoln who has
hosted over SO agriculture trainees, will serve as host to
the students. Tsutsumi and Takagi said they are looking
forward to Christmas and to helping Todd decorate her
Christmas tree.
Tsutsumi and Takagi said they expect Christmas in
the United States to be comparable to the Japanese New
Year.
New Year's Day is the biggest holiday in Japan, the
exchange students said.
"It's kind of a Christmas, because families get together
with relatives and kids get money," Takagi said.
The Japanese get a one-week vacation during Shogatsu,
the New Years holiday and kids are even allowed to
drink, Tsutsumi added. The money that children receive
during the festivities is called the New Year, allowance.
Other than the allowance, the students said there is no
exchange of gifts.
Takagi and Tsutsumi said Halloween, the first
American holiday they experienced, had some strange
customs. The two joined right in, though, by dressing up
and attending costume parties.
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Holidays are not the only differences the Japanese
students have found in the United States.
"It is very different here. Nebraska is flat. I've never
seen the sun coming up from the horizon because in
s Japan thereare always mountains," Tsutsumi said.
There are also differences in people .
"Japan is a homogenous society where everyone is of
one ethnic group, Takagi said. "People are very different
here because of the different nationalities and races."
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